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Origin and Evolution of Eukaryotic Large Nucleo-Cytoplasmic DNA Viruses

Author(s) -

Eugene V. Koonin,

Natalya Yutin

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

intervirology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.641

H-Index - 61

eISSN - 1423-0100

pISSN - 0300-5526

DOI - 10.1159/000312913

Subject(s) - biology , genome , gene , genetics , giant virus , phylogenetic tree , viral evolution , horizontal gene transfer , phylogenetics , evolutionary biology

The nucleo-cytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDV) constitute an apparently monophyletic group that consists of 6 families of viruses infecting a broad variety of eukaryotes. A comprehensive genome comparison and maximum-likelihood reconstruction of NCLDV evolution reveal a set of approximately 50 conserved genes that can be tentatively mapped to the genome of the common ancestor of this class of eukaryotic viruses. We address the origins and evolution of NCLDV.

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